Re:The Pragmatics of TDD
by TillE on Wednesday March 06, 2013 @01:48PM
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> Fix all other variables.
That's literally impossible to do in a straight one to one comparison. If nothing else, you have different people working at each one.
A broader study might get enough data to make meaningful comparisons, but I think strict TDD is too rare to get more than a few samples. It's a tough problem. I think you'd have to set up a completely artificial environment if you truly want to measure the relative efficiency of TDD.
That's literally impossible to do in a straight one to one comparison. If nothing else, you have different people working at each one.
A broader study might get enough data to make meaningful comparisons, but I think strict TDD is too rare to get more than a few samples. It's a tough problem. I think you'd have to set up a completely artificial environment if you truly want to measure the relative efficiency of TDD.